Weary Sentence Examples

We were all weary of waiting for you.

Finally he looked down at his lap and let out a long weary sigh.

Then again, maybe she was simply weary of listening to it.

This dance has happened more times than a weary historian can count.

Her walk turned into a trot as she pushed her weary body as fast as it would go.

It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.

At last, cold, hungry and weary, we reached our pier.

They were weary of the business, and wished to be done with it.

As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.

Making his way to the first floor, Jackson noticed he was feeling weary from all this drama, and also a little hungry.

Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he seem.

At length the two parties grew weary of this state of revolution, and a regime of conciliation, the fruit of mutual concessions, was established under Clement III.

He looked weary – more so than she had ever seen him.

Several officers, with flushed and weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking.

His principles were welcomed as a return to nature by those who were weary of theoretical disputes.

Through many weary months he never relaxed his hold on Lee's army, and, in spite of repeated.

Only after the public grew weary of this did printers go off in search of completely new books, called novels to mark their newness.

His subjects at length grew weary of the heavy expense of maintaining a large military force on the Belgian frontier and in 1839 the king gave way.

Gradually the allies began to weary of personal service and persuaded the synod to accept a money commutation.

Beside the tomb sits a weary soul, rejoicing neither in the joys of the past nor in the possibilities of the future, but seeking consolation in forgetfulness.

The nation, proud of its pre-eminence and weary of civil war, saw in the king its true representative and the guarantee of its unity and success.

And here's your pay for them! screams the countryman's whistle; timber like long battering-rams going twenty miles an hour against the city's walls, and chairs enough to seat all the weary and heavy-laden that dwell within them.

At last, however, the sea, as if weary of its new toy, threw me back on the shore, and in another instant I was clasped in my teacher's arms.

But, with all my love for Shakespeare, it is often weary work to read all the meanings into his lines which critics and commentators have given them.

He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident.

The nets were still unwashed and they were weary.

He seems never weary of saying something about Jesus.

Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife.

He urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but the farther he went the more disorganized they were.

Bagration seemed to say, and, fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and serious expression.

But in the decline of life he reaped the bitter fruits of his lack of self-control, and sank into the grave a weary and brokenhearted old man.

She was blamed for her friendship with the comtesse de Polignac, who loved her only as the dispenser of titles and positions; and when weary of this persistent begging for rewards, she was taxed with her preference for foreigners who asked nothing.

He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings.

Where but in the ark is a weary spirit to find safe repose?

Now Julia Volkova looks slightly weary - she must be tired of hospital wards.

Maybe you're a little weary - well relax by the pool.

Weary as they all were, his indomitable will put fresh life into the whole army.

Throughout the divorce proceedings Warham's position was essentially that of an old and weary man.

Every one was weary of the war, and many felt that it would be unwise to push Napoleon and the French nation to extremes.

Will my weary eyes finally conk out and leave me crashing about the motorway?

The guest was relaxed, his penetrating gaze calm and weary.

He considered going down to the drawing room for a drink, but decided, he too, felt quite weary.

They were weary of a means of pacification which produced endless wars abroad and misery at home.

The motive is often inadequate from the point of view of a European, but to the Malay it is sufficient to make him weary of life and anxious to court death.

But towards the end he confesses that he has grown weary of his task, and his history becomes meagre.

The citizens were growing weary of the monastic austerities imposed on them, and Alexander foresaw that his revenge was at hand.

Efforts to make peace, initiated by Pope Innocent VI., came to nothing, though the English commons were now weary of the war.

Talleyrand had long been weary of serving a master whose policy he more and more disapproved, and after the return from Tilsit to Paris he resigned office.

Weary of being trodden.

A fortnight later, however, Charles raised the siege of Stirling, and after a weary though successful march rested his troops at Inverness.

This fact, added to the influence of the local diets, made even the princes weary of war, and a universal and continuous demand arose for some reform of the machinery of government.

Omar's system not only diminished the actual revenue, but largely increased in the cities the numbers of the maula's (clients), mainly Persians, who were weary of their dependency on their Arabic lords, and demanded equal rights for themselves.

Weary of these commotions, the Arabs of Spain at last came to an understanding among themselves for the election of a caliph, and their choice fell upon one of the last survivors of the Omayyads, Abdarrahman b.

The Barmecide family were endowed in the highest degree with those qualities of generosity and liberality which the Arabs prized so highly, and the chronicles never weary in their p raises.

Mostakfi was soon weary of this new master, and plotted against him.

For example, as I am weary and am conscious of being weary, my judgment and proposition that I am weary are true because they signify what I am and know myself to be by direct consciousness; and my being weary is ambiguously said to be true because it is so signified.

Lacordaire read, and his ardent and believing nature, weary of the theological negations of the Encyclopaedists, was convinced.

I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her."

A quaint figure in the pantheon of the heroic age is Hanuman, the deified chief of monkeys - probably meant to represent the aboriginal tribes of southern India - whose wonderful exploits as Rama's ally on the expedition to Lanka Indian audiences will never weary of hearing recounted.

Transport to Algiers by sea from this place would have occasioned a weary stay of three months; Arago, therefore, set out for it by land under conduct of a Mahommedan priest, and reached it on Christmas day.

Confidential agents from the Swedish court had already prepared the way for him, and the duc de Choiseul, weary of Swedish anarchy, had resolved to discuss with him the best method of bringing about a revolution in Sweden.

There is a curious richness in this prose, so full of rhythm and harmony, that breaks at every moment into verse, as it drags itself along its slow and weary way, halffainting under an overload of epithets.

Men had become weary of Protestant scholasticism; religious wars had made peaceful thinkers seek to take the edge off dogmatical rancour; and the multiplicity of religious sects, coupled with the complete failure of various attempts at any substantial reconciliation, provoked distrust of the common basis on which all were founded.

But no such message came; and he went forth in his fifty-sixth year to a weary period of wandering among various states.

Sinan Pasha returned to Constantinople to die, it is said, of vexation; and in 1597, the sultan, weary of a disastrous contest, sent Michael a red flag in token of reconciliation, reinvested him for life in an office of which he had been unable to deprive him, and granted the succession to his son.

In sickened disgust the weary traveller made his way back to Ujiji, which he reached on the 13th of October.

Henry then returned to Normandy, of which his mother had been in possession since 1145, while Stephen turned his small remaining strength to the weary task of endeavouring to restore the foundations of law and order.

In the first month of 1306, however, the weary Scottish war broke out again, with the appearance of a new insurgent chief.

The problem proved more weary and exhausting than he had suspected.

The lowest point of her fortunes had been reached under the administration of Margaret of Anjou, during the weary years that preceded the outbreak of the civil wars in 1459.

The short-lived Goderich administration followed; and in January 1828 the king, weary of the effort to arrange a coalition, summoned the duke of Wellington to office as head of a purely Iuiu,g.

Educated in comparative seclusion, her character and her person were unfamiliar to her future subjects, who were a little weary of the extravagances and eccentricities of her immediate predecessors.

Weary of the condition of anarchy which existed in the republic, niany inhabitants of the Transvaal were ready to welcome its annexation to Great Britaina proposal favored by the colonial secretary, Lord Carnarvon, who wished to federate the South African states, after the manner in which the North American colonies had become by confederation the Dominion of Canada.

But the English Liberals were already a little weary of allies who were quarrelling among themselves, and whose disputes were introducing a new factor into politics.

In 1897 the whole tendency of thought and opinion was to enlarge the burden of which the preceding generation had been weary.

The policy of George III., and the support which it found among men who were weary of Whig factions, disturbed this scheme, and therefore Burke denounced both the court policy and the court party with all his heart and all his strength.

The mass of the crusaders became weary of the political factions which divided some of their leaders; and Godfrey, who was more of a pilgrim than a politician, becomes the natural representative of this feeling.

Mariamne's mother used her position to further her plots for the overthrow of her son-in-law; and she found an ally in Cleopatra of Egypt, who was unwilling to be spurned by him, even if she was not weary of his'patron, Antony.

Weary of revolution, men sought no more than to be wisely and firmly governed.

This latter is never Pleasure simply, but always Preservation - though on occasion he enlarges the notion of " preservation " into " preservation of life so as not to be weary of it."

When they are weary they lie down upon the ground, and as there are no means of making them get up, either by beating or assisting them, the load must of necessity be taken off.

On the contrary, the Assembly was weary of the subject.

But the emperor was ill, weary and aged by the life of pleasure which he led side by side with his life of work (as is proved by the letters to Mdlle Bellanger); he was suffering from a first attack of his bladder complaint.

Yet his elder sons revolted against him in 831 and 832, and were supported by Walla and Agobard and by their followers, weary of all the contradictory oaths demanded of them.

On the 8th of July he again entered Paris, " in the baggage train of the allied armies," as his enemies said, but in spite of this was received with the greatest enthusiasm by a people weary of wars and looking for constitutional government.

On the other hand he is never weary of preaching.

He rides fiddling at the head of the host; he plays to the weary warriors in the intervals of the battle in the court of Etzel's palace; but he is also expert at performing other music, with "a strong fiddle-bow, mighty and long, like to a sword, exceeding sharp and broad."

He looked weary – more so than she had ever seen him.

He said, "Strong words and capping threats from government will simply cause weary bewilderment."

This may be weary to some viewers who simply want to see really great fight choreography.

We grew weary of the ensuing confusion and eventually relinquished the name.

American doughboys were heartily weary of the unimaginative and barely digestible food served by army cooks.

Is it thy will thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night?

Most of the time, most of the time, most of us have reason to be weary.

It built on this by proposing places weary shoppers could eat and drink but found they could not survive just on day trade.

Imagine one of your team sits down across your desk and with a weary sigh begins to outline the latest problem.

All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

Instead of offering the weary traveler promised safety, it lured him to his death.

Finally, I expect I am not alone in feeling a trifle weary of carol services.

Weary travelers using the turnpike between Launceston and Bodmin would stay at the Inn after having crossed the wild and treacherous moor.

I am also rather weary of going down the wrong road.

Bloody magnificent, even, " she said, too weary to snap at him.

You never grow weary with admirers looking at you.

Kindly nature does not suffer a man seriously ill to feel weary.

There is no doubt that we become weary through endless trials.

Surprisingly everyone agreed for a change, we are getting weary of all the past action.

However, some of her clients noticed that she was looking weary.

For these have need of such comforts more than the knights, being in sooth weary meager wights and forlorn.

The siege was long protracted; the mass of the pilgrims were anxious to proceed to Jerusalem, and, as the altered tone of the author of the Gesta sufficiently indicates, thoroughly weary of the obstinate political bickerings of Raymund_and Bohemund.

Another source of trouble was the attitude of the emperor Sigismund, who, not content with protecting by his presence and as far as possible directing the deliberations of the "Universal Church," followed on more than one occasion a policy of violence and threats, a policy all the more irritating since, weary of his previously assumed role of peacemaker between the Christian powers, he had abruptly allied himself with the king of England, and adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards the king of France.

In March the Uitlanders, hopeless of ever obtaining redress from President Kruger, weary of sending petitions to the Raad only to be jeered at, determined to invoke intervention if nothing else could avail, and forwarded a petition to Queen Victoria.

These men and their followers were never weary of ridiculing the timid caution of the aged statesman who sacrificed everything to perpetuate an inglorious peace and derisively nicknamed his adherents " Night-caps " (a term subsequently softened into " Caps "), themselves adopting the sobriquet " Hats," from the threecornered hat worn by officers and gentlemen, which was considered happily to hit off the manly self-assertion of the opposition.

At length Haakon, weary of delay, attacked, only to encounter a terrific storm which greatly damaged his ships.

One could have traveled round the word many times while I trudged my weary way through the labyrinthine mazes of grammars and dictionaries, or fell into those dreadful pitfalls called examinations, set by schools and colleges for the confusion of those who seek after knowledge.

We sat in the hammock; but there was no rest for the weary there.

While in the Rostovs' ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezukhov had a sixth stroke.

Prince Andrew took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the commander-in-chief and of his own luggage.

The soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and grew weary waiting to be relieved.

Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud?

The balalayka was retuned several times and the same notes were thrummed again, but the listeners did not grow weary of it and wished to hear it again and again.

Julie was offended and replied that it was true that a woman needs variety, and the same thing over and over again would weary anyone.

In a suffering and weary voice he was saying something to Tikhon, speaking of the Crimea and its warm nights and of the Empress.

The whole army--French, Italian, German, Polish, and Dutch--hungry, ragged, and weary of the campaign, felt at the sight of an army blocking their road to Moscow that the wine was drawn and must be drunk.

While waiting in the reception room Pierre with weary eyes watched the various officials, old and young, military and civilian, who were there.

Just then the countess came in from the sitting room with a weary and dissatisfied expression.

Nicholas and Denisov rose, asked for their pipes, smoked, went to fetch more tea from Sonya--who sat weary but resolute at the samovar--and questioned Pierre.

I do not wonder that the weary camels coming from the scorching African deserts should be able to scent the Nile.

Weary sleepless eyes squeezing tight miss clouds bathed in silvery light beams.

At last the weary troopers dismounted and bivouacked near the farm of Mont St Jean.

Nothing fatigues the body so much as weariness of spirit, and Eleanor 's spirit was indeed weary.

In private, the mood was very different - a combination of worry and weary resignation.

The specially customized bus also features a refreshment bar on its top deck to provide solace for weary shoppers.

If your baby has already arrived, you've probably discovered that there isn't much rest for the weary...you.

I have fought him tooth and nail and now I am just tired and weary.

Allow the warm waters of the Caribbean to embrace your weary body.

Part of the game is that the bureaus figure that if you grow weary, you'll quit, which happens a lot.

The necessity of accurate acquaintance with any foreign language and of obtaining good texts, is a subject Bacon is never weary of descanting upon.

The queen-mother, however, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition.

Then followed weary years of ruinous delay and official inquiry, during which Hobson died after founding Auckland.

He inveighs against the oppression of the poor by the rich, reproves those who, weary of matins or mass, spend their time in church "jangling," telling tales, and wondering where they will get the best ale, and revives the legend of the dancers at the church door during mass who were cursed by the priest and went on dancing for a twelvemonth without cessation.

In 1840 he became pattern-designer to a ribbon manufacturer at Coventry; but weary of ill-paid exile he returned the same year to Boulogne, and in 1841 took his degree at Douai.

But the Renaissance, like the religious revivals initiated in Italy, arrived in Scotland weak and weary; hence the church did not share in the new enthusiasms of the faith of St Francis, and art was trampled on by the magnates who hated poetry and painting.

This, then, is an important moment in the long and weary march to union with England.

The ground was difficult from heavy rains, the English troops were weary and hungry, but James had lost touch of Surrey and knew nothing of his movements till his troops appeared on his rear towards evening.

But the mass of the people, and especially the rural population, sick of revolution, and weary even of the moderate republicanism of Cavaignac, were anxious for a stable government.

Years before, in 1852 and 1854 respectively, the British government, at that time a little weary of the responsibilities of colonial rule, had recognized the independence of the two Dutch republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

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Fighting for God and the Queen is nonsense, as every weary British trooper soon discovers.

And if it sets us wondering if God cares any longer, we get spiritually weary too.

In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.

She became weary of living and was bored by the tedium of existence.

The weary but happy crews at the finish were unanimous in the praise for Adrian Gladwin 's 9th Preston.

Can these be held long enough for the Allies to grow weary of the war?

Bloody magnificent, even, she said, too weary to snap at him.

Maybe you 're a little weary - well relax by the pool.

For centuries now, Acton has been the favorite stopping place for weary travelers.

He even gave a daily massage to ease our weary limbs !

Let us escape from this weary workaday world by the side door of music.

The constant abasement and humiliation made him weary.

Growing weary of my standard eyeliner and lipstick look, I've decided to do a Cover Girl eye shadow review to see if it packs the same makeup punch that eyeliners do, but without all the tugging and pulling.

Shoppers can rest their weary feet in the lounge area typically located in the center of the store.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - This power couple we are all growing weary of earned about $55 million.

These socks are found to be comfortable, sturdy and long-lasting, making them a boon for both children and weary parents.

A weary little cat, since named "Lucky", had managed to survive a sixty mile ride from Mobile, Alabama to Pensacola, Florida before it was discovered under the engine hood of a car.

More and more gamers are growing weary of going to their hometown video stores looking for a decent title to rent.

For the heart of a dancer, inspirational dance quotes can strengthen a weary spirit and refresh dreams that are often dashed by failed auditions and side lining injuries.

It's a wonderful cardio workout for those who are growing weary of treadmill life, and it can also provide you with the opportunity to meet new people.

Even if you're color weary, your stylist can recommend a few looks that will help roughen up the hair cuticle.

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Bring your tired, your weary, and your huddled masses and ring in freedom in a Lady Liberty costume.

The brighter the green, the more enervating and hopeful a person may feel, which is why lime green travel totes are the perfect accessory for keeping listless and weary travelers in a positive frame of mind.

In addition to a folding paper map, looking online for directions to dining, rest rooms and gas station options prevents confusion and searching while weary from hours spend driving on open road.

If someone offers you one and the price is too good be weary because it's probably a second-class replica and not what you're looking for.

If sore, weary muscles leave you sluggish, you'll benefit from a relieving soak in the bath.

After a severe struggle this proposal was accepted; but the academic discussion on the constitution continued for weary months, and on the 20th of May, realizing the hopelessness of coming to terms with the ultra-democrats, Gagern and his friends resigned.

For this unfortunate combination Signor Sonnino himself was not altogether to blame; having lost many of his most faithful followers, who, weary of waiting for office, had gone over to the enemy, he had been forced to seek support among men who had professed hostility to the existing order of things and thus to secure at least the neutrality of the Extreme Left and make the public realize that the reddest of Socialists, Radicals and Republicans may be tamed and rendered harmless by the offer of cabinet appointments.

On the whole, the new Duma was fairly representative of the changed temper of the Russian people, disillusioned and weary of anarchy.

Long after the Goths had lost Rome they still clung to Ravenna, till at length, weary of the feebleness of their own king, Vitiges, and struck with admiration of their heroic conqueror, they offered to transfer their allegiance to Belisarius on condition of his assuming the diadem of the Western Empire.

Only four of his men, including Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, succeeded after eight years' of Indian captivity and of long and weary wanderings, in finding their way to Spanish settlements in Mexico.

He reformed the coinage, developed trade and commerce and introduced numerous agricultural reforms, especially on his own estates, which he was never weary of enlarging, so that on his death he was the wealthiest landowner in Denmark.

Weary with this work, he took a post at Borch College in 1710, where he wrote, and printed in 1711, his first work, An Introduction to the History of the Nations of Europe, and was permitted to present to King Frederick IV.

It begins with a psalm (xc.) ascribed in the title to Moses, and seemingly designed to express feelings appropriate to a situation analogous to that of the Israelites when, after the weary march through the wilderness, they stood on the borders of the promised land.

On the other hand, it naturally came to pass that certain of the allies became weary of incessant warfare and looked for a period of commercial prosperity.

In the latter there occurred the suggestive remarks that, whereas revolutions made men prematurely old and weary, the work of colonization tended to renew the youth of nations.

In times so " out of joint " Latimer soon became " weary of the court," and it was with a sense of relief that he accepted the living of West Kington, or West Kineton, Wiltshire, conferred on him by the king in 1531.

Weary of politics, and obeying a natural inclination to pleasure, Julius then virtually abdicated the management of affairs, and gave himself up to enjoyment, amusing himself with the adornment of his villa, near the Porta del Popolo, and often so far forgetting the proprieties of his office as to participate in entertainments of a questionable character.

Otherwise the only thing known (from one or two letters) of his life in those years is that from the year 1648 he had begun to think of returning home; he was then sixty, and might well be weary of exile.

Weary of struggle and disorder, and despairing of any help from the central authority, the estates of Austria met at Triibensee in 1251, and chose Ottakar, son of Wenceslaus I., king of Bohemia, as their duke.

At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town.

Robert II., the grandson of Robert Bruce, had lived hard, and when he came to the throne, was weary of fighting and of politics.

Tired legs, a sore groin and weary calves kept him on the bench also for Wolves draw with Sheff Utd.

Mony a sair daurk we twa hae wrought, An ' wi ' the weary warl ' fought!

Despite his apparently delicate build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhturov to Kutuzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brunn.

Kutuzov, who was already weary of Bolkonski's activity which seemed to reproach his own idleness, very readily let him go and gave him a mission to Barclay de Tolly.

She spoke in a soft, tremulous voice, and in the weary eyes that looked over her spectacles Sonya read all that the countess meant to convey with these words.

Zach was beginning to feel weary from the constant friction between him and his coworkers.

Browsing the aisles you'll also find "oxygen enhancers", Creatine products, herb concoctions and chemical products using only acronyms, all promising to sweep you off your weary feet in a jiffy.

If you are unable to keep up, the Gemini personality will grow weary of the relationship and move on.

More and more people requiring specialty fashions and accessories are finding themselves weary of driving all over town in an attempt to locate the solitary store that carries their obscure desired item.

At the end of the third season, soul weary and beaten down by her experiences with Miss Jeannette, Maryann and Franklin, Tara put Bon Temps in her review mirror.

The hotel offers many amenities to soothe weary travelers and keep businesspeople happily working.

Charles VI., weary of the war for the Spanish succession, had shortly before concluded the peace of Rastadt (1715) and was anxious that Venice should not be too hardly pressed.

He destroys " the three shepherds " in one month, but is soon weary of his flock and the flock of him.

Nearly every modern hymnal contains perhaps a score of his hymns, including "Go, labour on," "I heard the voice of Jesus say," "Here, 0 my Lord, I see Thee face to face," "When the weary, seeking rest."

The Tirolese soon grew weary of his government, and, in 1446, Sigismund was declared of age.

Pharnabazus, weary of bearing the whole cost of the war for the Peloponnesians, agreed to a period of truce so that envoys might visit Susa, but at this stage the whole position was changed by the appointment of Cyrus the Younger as satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia and Cappadocia.

He compared himself, in contemplation of the close of the great work of his life, to a gallant horse which, after having often won the prize at the Olympic games, obtained his rest when weary with age.

He was weary of the rabies theologorum, and dreamed that the evangelical leaven, if tolerated, would purify the church's life and doctrine.

He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited.

But Edward's title had been expressly sanctioned by act of parliament, so that there was no more room for election in his case than in that of George I., and the real motive of the changes was to shorten the weary ceremony for the frail child.

As is related in the legends, Quetzalcoatl came into the land to teach men to till the soil, to work metals and to rule a well-ordered state; the two gods played their famous match at the ball-game, and Tezcatlipoca persuaded the weary Quetzalcoatl to drink the magic pulque that sent him roaming to the distant ocean, where he embarked in his boat and disappeared from among men.'

Signs are also not wanting that Christina was growing weary of the cares of government; while the importunity of the senate and Riksdag on the question of her marriage was a constant source of irritation.

Many weary hours are spent in setting baits, traps and wires, and, frequently, when the hunter retraces his steps to collect the quarry it is only to find it gone, devoured by some large animal that has visited his traps before him.